Climate Change and Natural Disasters

The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards.

Vinod Thomas was formerly Senior Vice President at the World Bank and Director General at the Asian Development Bank. He is the author of 15 books and numerous peer-reviewed articles on subjects ranging from macroeconomic policy and trade policy to urban policy, agriculture, and the environment.

1. Overview 2. The Anatomy of Climate-Related Natural Disasters 3. The Rising Threat of Climate-Related Natural Disasters; Global 4. Climate Change Mitigation 5. Climate Adaptation and Disaster Management 6. Transforming Mindsets 7. A New Development Paradigm